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Study Group: Understanding Gravity - REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.
  • Fee: $65.00
    Sessions: 12 | Days: Th
    Dates: 9/25/2025 - 12/18/2025
    Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    Building: Trinity Lutheran
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    The course is based on a Great Course’s set of video lectures titled, Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime: Understanding Gravity, taught by Professor Benjamin Schumacher, whose course on information science we recently presented. We typically view two lectures per session with time for discussion after each lecture. Brief summaries of the lectures will be provided on a PDF file. When we’ve finished viewing and discussing the 24 Great Courses videos, we will briefly explore new efforts to relate gravity to entropy.

    Dick Chase has a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics and worked for 27 years in the Scientific Research Lab of Ford Motor Company. He has been hosting science-related classes for OLLI since 2013.
 

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